1803.] 
which all the other infrumeuts hitherto 
made ufe of do. 
About the end of March eight waggons 
arrived at Paris, loaded with the moft va- 
luable works of artand antiques formerly 
beloncing to the Villa Albani and the pa- 
lace of the Principe Brafchi. The Medi- 
cean Venus and the Pallas of Villetri are 
expected foon to follow. 
The Academy of Arts and Sciences of 
New York has opened a fubfcription of 
25,000 dollars, for the purpofe of procur- 
ing from Paris, by means of the American 
Minifter, works of art of every kind, 
drawings and copies of pictures, cafts of 
the molt beau‘iful ftatues, antiques, &c. 
No foreiga works, in whatever lan- 
guage, and upon whatever fubjeé they be 
written, are allowed to be fold in Spain, 
until a copy has been fent to the Council 
of Caftile for examination, and a licence 
obtained. In confequence of this regula- 
tion, and the tardy proceedings of the li- 
cenfers, whole bales of printed paper are 
lying ufelefs or fpoiling in the cuftom- 
houfes, 
The officers of police in Paris lately 
Proceedings of Learned Societies. 445_ 
feized feveral pirated editions of books ; 
and the French Government are now more 
attentive than ever to put a ftop to this 
{fpecies of robbery, which had become but 
too frequent during the revolution. 
A Greek Poem has lately been pubs 
lifhed at Vienna, by Father AmBrosE 
Pompery, coniilting of 506 verfes, which 
have the fame meaning when read either 
backwards or forwards, : 
About two years ago a number of Po- 
lifh literati. formed themfelves into a fo- 
ciety, under the prefidency of Bifhop Al- 
berrandi. The name of this Society, - 
which confifts of fixty members, is the 
Warfaw Society of Friends of the Sciences; 
and the objects of their labours are, to 
preferve and cultivate the Polith language, 
to compole practical treatifes, to tranflate 
claffical authors, and to publifh works 
of general utility. The firft volume of 
their Tranfactions has lately made its aps 
pearance. | 
Laft year a coloffal equeftrian ftatue 
was caft in bronze at Mexico by MaNueEL 
Torso, Direétor of the Academy of 
Sculpture in that city. 
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PROCEEDINGS OF LEARNED SOCIETIES. 
THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF 
FRANCE. 
ANALYSIS of a@ MEMOIR read to the 
CLASS of LITERATURE and FINE 
ARTS, during the FiRST QUARTERLY 
SITTING of YEAR 11, by CITIZEN’ 
.MONGEZ. 
Bais: Memoir relates to the difcovery 
of a number of medals in the De- 
partment of Cantal. Citizen Mongez 
Opens it with the following preliminary 
obfervations. 
«<A taste for instruction and for de- 
fin is becoming general, of late, in the 
departments. ‘This may be attributed fo 
the central fchools, and antiquarians 
highly applaud one-another on the cir- 
cumitance. As foon as any fubte:ran-an 
feitareh is fet on foot, or any intereiting © 
difcovery made, citizens of enlightened 
fentiments haften to the {por, afliduoufly 
collect the difcovered objeéts, and, by 
means of the at of defign, propagate 
their ufeful laboursthroughoutall France.” 
In the beginning of this year, as ome 
men were digging at the diftance of two 
kilometers from Aurillac, near Fabregue, 
in a meadow watered by the-river Jor- 
_Monrary Mac. No. 101, 
dane, a portion of a circular inclofure 
was found, formed by a double wall 
The interior wall confitted of very beau 
tiful circular baked bricks, with joints 
tending to the centre. It was environed 
with a wall of dry ftones, intended, 
without doubt, to fupport the grounds. 
While digging in this inclofure, and 
aftsr demolifhing it, medals of gilt bronze 
were found of all the Roman emperors 
down to Commodus, Otho excepted ; 
which proves, that, from the fecond cen- 
tury, the bronze m-dals of that prince 
wexe very rare, and had not. perhaps been 
till then tranfported into Gaul. With 
the fmall vafes of pottery, which contain- 
ed the medals, fome {maller ones were 
difinterred, which contained f{pices: the 
workmen took them for tobacco; but 
finding them taftelefs, they threw them 
away, end carefully wafhed the vafes that 
held them ; fo that it is impoffible to dif- 
tinguifh the nature of thefe {pices, and 
not even the odour which the vafes would 
have retained of them. Two {mall pieces 
of very white and moulded clay were alf 
difinterred ; one reprelenting a dog, Shale 
Jegs have been broken; the other is the 
bust of a woman, the remaining part of 
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